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The Pilates Effect
The true story behind this fitness phenomenon and its long, controversy-plagued road to popular success. While millions today find the Pilates system helps to strengthen the core, improve posture, and recover from or prevent injuries and pain, Pilates has been clouded in controversy since the beginning. Its origin story is one of greed, ego, celebrities, and lies, with heated legal controversy that threatened the industry. In The Pilates Effect, Stacey Redfield and Sarah Holmes reveal the hidden history of Pilates. From humble beginnings, Joseph Pilates founded the groundbreaking regimen in New York City and worked closely with his partner Clara to rehabilitate and renew dancers who had been...
Pilates − A Teachers’ Manual
The Pilates book for professionals: Background information and extensive practical knowledge on using the Pilates approach in prevention and therapy. The foundations include, among others, the "Pilates Principles" (Breathing, Centering, Flow, Precision, Concentration, Control and Coordination). The extensive praxis part presents all techniques and exercises (mat and equipment training) with detailed photos of movement sequences and with precise instructions and explanations of each exercise. Class plans provide concrete suggestions for the design of course units with prevention orientation and patient examples illustrate treatment procedures and therapeutic effects of the Pilates approach for different symptoms. - A must-have for all Pilates professionals: teachers, trainers, physiotherapists.
Making the American Body
If you thought the fitness craze was about being healthy, think again. Although Charles Atlas, Jack LaLanne, Jim Fixx, Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons, and Jillian Michaels might well point the way to a better body, they have done so only if their brands brought in profits. In the first book to tell the full story of the American obsession with fitness and how we got to where we are today, Jonathan Black gives us a backstage look at an industry and the people that have left an indelible mark on the American body and the consciousness it houses. Spanning the nation’s fitness obsession from Atlas to Arnold, from Spinning to Zumba, and featuring an outrageous cast of characters bent on whipping u...
Das Pilates-Lehrbuch
Das Pilates-Buch für Profis: Hintergrundinfos und umfassendes Praxiswissen zum Einsatz des Pilates-Konzepts in Prävention und Therapie. Zu den Grundlagen gehören u.a.die „Pilates-Prinzipien“ (Breathing, Centering, Flow, Precision, Concentration, Control, Coordination). Im umfangreichen Praxis-Teil werden alle Techniken und Übungen (Matten- und Gerätetraining) mit Fotosequenzen zum detaillierten Bewegungsablauf und mit genauer Anleitung und Erläuterung jeder Übung vorgestellt. Stundenbilder geben konkrete Anregungen für die Gestaltung von Kurseinheiten in präventiv ausgerichteten Kursen, und Patientenbeispiele veranschaulichen Behandlungsabläufe und therapeutische Effekte der Pi...
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